Recovering deleted files

[bryanh]

Hi All

I did a search and didn't find my particular issue, so sorry if this has already been covered. I'm running FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x64 (e625626) on an unused computer I had, mostly for Plex. Lately Plex has been acting up so I reinstalled it. The installation worked fine but Plex didn't. So I reinstalled it again. If you haven't already guessed, I really don't know WTF I'm doing. Long story short, the latest Plex installation deleted all my old files and folders, including TVShows, Movies AND some iPhone files I had backed up. Obvious;y I want to restore these files and I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance.

Thanks

Bryan

 

[hugovsky]

Hi and welcome. Can you post full system spec and file system type?

 

[bryanh]

Hi and thanks.

Platform Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E6300 @ 2.80GHz
Memory 4073MB
File System is ZFS.

 

[hugovsky]

I think your only option is if you have snapshots set up. Do you? If so, you can recover from there.

 

[bryanh]

No I don't think I had it set up :(

 

[bryanh]

I did find ZFS Snapshots under storage. There are 6 items. But they appear to be warden template files.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

the latest Plex installation deleted all my old files and folders, including TVShows, Movies AND some iPhone files I had backed up

More likely, it created new folders or mount points that are hiding the old ones. Has the free space gone up much? If not, I bet this is what happened.

Plex has been acting up

Most likely because...

Memory 4073MB

Not enough.

 

[bryanh]

Thanks, the drive space hasn't gone up much if at all. And I know I need more RAM - that's why I can't install the FreeNAS update.

 

[bryanh]

So, any suggestions on finding these hidden mount points and ultimately my files?

 

[pirateghost]

Your media should have been in an attached storage (dataset) to the plugin and not within the plugin. If it was within the plugin and not on a dataset on your pool, then its all gone.

 

[bryanh]

Not what I wanted to hear :( So there's no way of recovering the files then?

Thanks

Bryan